Travellers Rest gained its name from the fact of the many guests it has entertained. John Overton, afterward Justice of the Supreme Court, came from Virginia in 1793 and built a two-room log house on the site of the present building. He was one of...

A photograph of the demolition of the Maxwell House Hotel in 1962, after it was gutted by fire. The five story hotel was begun by John Overton in 1859, but the Civil War delayed its completion. It was used for barracks for both Union soldiers and...

A photograph of the congregation from Kayne Avenue Baptist Church standing outside. This African American church was located on Twelfth Avenue South, across from the Carter-Lawrence School. When the building burned down it was replaced by a new...

A page from a mounted and bound volume of twenty-five pen-and-ink wash drawings, and two pen-and-ink maps of Nashville created by William A. Eichbaum during the 1850s. Eichbaum was a Nashville bookseller and resident for fifty years. This drawing...

1 map; 58 x 75 cm. The first page of a two-page index to a plat map of downtown Nashville, Tennessee, originally published in 1908 by G.M. Hopkins Company. This index lists the names of all streets appearing on the map with their corresponding...

1 map; 58 x 75 cm. A plat map of downtown Nashville, Tennessee, originally published in 1908 by G. M. Hopkins Company, showing the various buildings, landscapes, acreage, and street routes for several blocks in each direction from the state Capitol...

The Maxwell House Hotel during the razing phase of the structure. The hotel, which stood at the northeast corner of Fourth Avenue, North, and Church Street in downtown Nashville, was a prominent hotel at which several US Presidents and other...

The Maxwell House Hotel during the razing phase of the structure. The hotel, which stood at the northeast corner of Fourth Avenue, North, and Church Street in downtown Nashville, was a prominent hotel at which several US Presidents and other...

The Maxwell House Hotel during the razing phase of the structure. The hotel, which stood at the northeast corner of Fourth Avenue, North, and Church Street in downtown Nashville, was a prominent hotel at which several US Presidents and other...

The Maxwell House Hotel during the razing phase of the structure. The hotel, which stood at the northeast corner of Fourth Avenue, North, and Church Street in downtown Nashville, was a prominent hotel at which several US Presidents and other...

The Maxwell House Hotel during the razing phase of the structure. The hotel, which stood at the northeast corner of Fourth Avenue, North, and Church Street in downtown Nashville, was a prominent hotel at which several US Presidents and other...

The Maxwell House Hotel during the razing phase of the structure. The hotel, which stood at the northeast corner of Fourth Avenue, North, and Church Street in downtown Nashville, was a prominent hotel at which several US Presidents and other...

The Maxwell House Hotel during the razing phase of the structure. The hotel, which stood at the northeast corner of Fourth Avenue, North, and Church Street in downtown Nashville, was a prominent hotel at which several US Presidents and other...

The Maxwell House Hotel during the razing phase of the structure. The hotel, which stood at the northeast corner of Fourth Avenue, North, and Church Street in downtown Nashville, was a prominent hotel at which several US Presidents and other...

The Maxwell House Hotel during the razing phase of the structure. The hotel, which stood at the northeast corner of Fourth Avenue, North, and Church Street in downtown Nashville, was a prominent hotel at which several US Presidents and other...

The Maxwell House Hotel during the razing phase of the structure. The hotel, which stood at the northeast corner of Fourth Avenue, North, and Church Street in downtown Nashville, was a prominent hotel at which several US Presidents and other...

The Maxwell House Hotel during the razing phase of the structure. The hotel, which stood at the northeast corner of Fourth Avenue, North, and Church Street in downtown Nashville, was a prominent hotel at which several US Presidents and other...

The Maxwell House Hotel during the razing phase of the structure. The hotel, which stood at the northeast corner of Fourth Avenue, North, and Church Street in downtown Nashville, was a prominent hotel at which several US Presidents and other...

The Maxwell House Hotel during the razing phase of the structure. The hotel, which stood at the northeast corner of Fourth Avenue, North, and Church Street in downtown Nashville, was a prominent hotel at which several US Presidents and other...

The Maxwell House Hotel during the razing phase of the structure. The hotel, which stood at the northeast corner of Fourth Avenue, North, and Church Street in downtown Nashville, was a prominent hotel at which several US Presidents and other...